Improvement in folding bedsteads



D. ARNAUD. FOLDING BE'DSTEAD.

Patented Sept. 26,1876.

N.PE1ERS. PHUTO-LITNOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C.

I 2 Sheets-ShetatZ. D. ARNAUD. FOLDING BEDSTEAD. N 182,544, Patented Se-pt=-.--26', -18'76.

w @IIIM N.PETERS, FHOTU-LITHOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON D C DERK ARNAUD, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS IPROVEMENT IN FOLDING BEDSTEADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 1 52,544, dated September 26, 1876; application filed March 2Q, 1876.

forth in the following specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to that class of wardrobe-bedsteads in which the bedstead proper can be folded or raised up to impart the appearance of a wardrobe. The improvements are fully hereinafter described, and specifically 7 pointed out in the claims, a preliminary description being, sary.

in the drawings, Figure 1 shows a perspective view of my bedstead. Fig. 2 is a side View, partly in section, with the foot of the bed in position for use and the bed-frame partially raised. Fig. 3 is a front view when the bedstead is folded; and Fig. 4c shows a rear view with the tables folded and in place.

A shows the stationary portion of my bedstead, A being the headboard. B is the front, so called, hinged to the stationary part A and having hinged to it at one end the footboard 0, with it legs 0, and hinged to it at the other end the bed frame D. These parts should be provided with suitable catches, to hold them together in their different positions. E is a table; and E a wash-stand, arranged to slide into pockets in the rear portion of the main part A, they being hinged to slides e e, and having folding legs ff to support them when opened for use. The table therefore, deemed unnecesand wash stand are hinged to the slides e 6, so that they can be withdrawn from the pocktached to the front; but

ets in the rear of the head-board and turned down to a horizontal position, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, the legs f and f and slides e and 6, serving to support said table and wash-stand, as before stated.

The bed-frame D may be permanently at- I prefer to separate them, as shown, in order to divide the weight, so that a person of little strength can the more easily lift or lower them, an advantage which is readily apparent. This part of my invention may be applied to other articles than bedsteadsas, for instance, a bath tubmay be attached to either of the parts B or D,

which when not in use could be folded up out of sight.

The advantage of having a table or washstand arranged so as to fold away when not in use is also apparent; and I have therefore contrived the tables E and E, arranged to slide into pockets in the back of the stationary part of the bedstead, which tables and pockets may be attached to a book -case or other piece of furniture as well as to a bedstead. I also usually attach a drawer to the part A, to hold the pitcher and wash-bowl.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of the stationary part A, the front B, bed-frame D, and foot 0 0, constructed and arranged as described.

2. The combination of the stationary part A with the table E, said table being hinged to a sliding piece, 6, and having folding legs f, substantially as described.

DERK ARNAUD.

Witnesses:

CHAS. F. SLEEPER, THOMAS'F. CURRIER. 

